(National Review) Andre Archie - In Why Nationalism, former Israeli Education Minister and Labor Party politician Yael "Yuli" Tamir sings the praises of nationalism and exhorts her fellow liberals to embrace nationalism as a unifying force to overcome ethnic, religious, and class divisions that plague the modern nation-state. Tamir makes the case for liberal nationalism as a sensible alternative to the nativist's blood-and-soil nationalism, which she rejects outright. Tamir argues that citizens have a psychological need for membership in a particular place, a human need to belong to something more than oneself. The writer is an associate professor of ancient Greek philosophy at Colorado State University.
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